Where does “agglomerate” come from?
Agglomerate comes from Latin agglomerare, from Latin ad and a root related to Proto-Indo-European ád, itself from Proto-Indo-European h₂éd meaning "to eat" or "consume."
agglomerate (English): collected into a ball, heap, or mass; A...
Definitions
- collected into a ball, heap, or mass; A...
Ancestry of “agglomerate”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Latin | agglomeratus | |
| 2 | Latin | agglomero | I wind on into a ball, add by winding; add or... |
| 3 | Latin | ad- | to; usually prefixed to verbs, in which cases it... |
| 4 | Latin | īn- | un-, non-, not |
| 5 | Latin | în | in, at, on, upon, from (space) |
| 6 | Latin | en | lookǃ beholdǃ; reallyǃ?; come onǃ |
| 7 | Proto-Italic | en | in |
| 8 | Proto-Indo-European | h₁én | in |